New light attacks scaling with max stat.

Animus-ESO

Why not go all the way and let you restore magicka with heavy attacks If you are a melee mag character. I find it infuriating that I'm forced to use a staff as a magplar when I'm a melee dps. Great sword just feels way more natural.

Ratzkifal

Probably because that change would mess a lot of things up and is more trouble than it's worth right now. That doesn't mean they won't do it in the future, just that they already had one can of worms open and didn't want another.

Danksta

I like being able to restore stam on one bar and mag on the other with heavies.

Jodynn

While they're at it add the passives to bleed magicka based or give spell critical for daggers.

Chilly-McFreeze

Danksta wrote: »

I like being able to restore stam on one bar and mag on the other with heavies.

I guess many tanks are fond on this.

Firstmep

brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »

While they're at it add the passives to bleed magicka based or give spell critical for daggers.

Didn't they merge all crits into 1 Stat? I assumed dagger crit would be shared as well.

Jodynn

Firstmep wrote: »

brandoncoffmannub18_ESO wrote: »

While they're at it add the passives to bleed magicka based or give spell critical for daggers.

Didn't they merge all crits into 1 Stat? I assumed dagger crit would be shared as well.

On the PTS currently, no.

Animus-ESO

Danksta wrote: »

I like being able to restore stam on one bar and mag on the other with heavies.

then why not keep sword and board the same just DW and 2H that give what your max stat is.
I doubt someone is running staff/2h

kojou

The bigger issue is that the light attacks with swords do physical damage, so they won't scale with CP on a magicka setup. If they would introduce an elemental fire sword that does flame damage then it would make for some interesting choices.

As it is, I think Magicka Templars might get to run dual wield since it buffs both Sweeps and Radiant Oppression, whereas with a staff you have to choose single target or AoE (fire and shock respectively), but the damage you lose on light attacks is not insignificant. If you are not using Sweeps for your spamable then you are definitely better off using a flame staff.

I would like to see someone try to optimize around a dual wield magicka Templar and see how it compares to a staff. Assuming you can sustain a light attack rotation it might end up being competitive.